Elizabeth Stanley

Elizabeth Stanley is a licensed professional counselor in both Texas and Arizona and a certified school counselor who recently transitioned to full-time online practice with BetterHelp after serving as a high school counselor. She has nine years of experience as a counselor, primarily working in school settings, and she previously taught elementary school for six years.

She has supported students and clients with a wide range of concerns including family conflicts, academic struggles, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, ADHD, autism, LGBT matters, depression, anxiety, perfectionism, grief, and suicidal ideation. Elizabeth works with both adolescents and adults and has been providing counseling through BetterHelp for three years prior to moving to full-time practice there.

Much of her professional career has involved a primarily Hispanic population, and she is comfortable working with people from different cultural backgrounds. She favors cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and solution-focused approaches, but adapts her methods to fit each person’s needs and often blends different therapeutic philosophies as appropriate.

Elizabeth values the idea that individuals are experts on their own lives and aims to help clients increase contentment, build coping skills, and improve overall mental health. She believes a nonjudgmental, unbiased space is central to good counseling and sometimes uses humor to ease the process and strengthen the therapeutic relationship. To accommodate varied schedules she offers limited after-work sessions in addition to typical 8am-5pm availability.

She looks forward to meeting people who are ready to take the next step toward better mental health and welcomes the opportunity to work collaboratively toward meaningful change.